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The Cock Lane Ghost Grant, Douglas
New York St. Martin's Press 1965 Cloth Very Good Good
Blue boards with gold lettering on spine. Binding is tight. Pages are clean. Minor shelfwear. DJ shows crease, rubbing, closed tears and chipping at corners. "The Cock Lane Ghost - the sensation of London of 1762 - has become proverbial. The narrow lane was jammed with coaches as the public fought to get into the small room where the medium, a child of twelve, relayed the knocks and scratches whereby the Ghost declared its weird and frightening message. Known familiarly as Scratching Fanny, the spirit of Frances Lynes accused her helpless lover, WIlliam Kent, of murdering her by poison while she lay sick of the smallpox; one of the few instances when a ghost has ventured into the open in the search for revenge. The Methodists werw charged with sponsoring the affair in their own interests; Doctor Johnson was one of a committee that investigated the phenomenon; Horace Walpole, in company with the Duke of York, attended a seance; David Garrick brought Fanny on to the stage; William Hogarth published a print ridiculing the public's credulity -o nearly every figures of the day became involved in one way or another." 0106N0195F18 Metaphysical History 005523
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